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An officer in Staffordshire, central England, labeled the thieves the "world s unluckiest burglars" and likened them to the ill-fated crooks in the movie "Home Alone." ....
Champion surfing siblings have spoken about their heroic efforts after a dramatic video of them saving a drowning woman in Hawaii last week shocked the world. Australian athletes Tyler, 27, and Mikey Wright, 24, made a joint rescue of a female beachgoer who was swept out into the rocky reefs at Ke Iki Beach in Hawaii on New Year s Eve. The dramatic moment Mikey ran into rough surf to rescue a woman being dragged out into sea was shared widely online, with viewers calling the sibling rescue an absolutely heroic effort . Mickey Wright (pictured, centre) rescued a woman who was dragged out into the rough surf on New Years Eve ....
Housing and Development Newsletter Santa Barbara s Lakey Peterson and Ojai s Sage Erickson were both a part of history as they surfed in the very first Pipeline women’s contest. Both surfers were knocked out in the quarterfinals Peterson by a mere 3.07 points in a battle with Sally Fitzgibbons of Australia, and Erickson by Brazil s Tatiana Weston-Webb (Brazil). Beyond the 805-area surfers, many of the pros in both the men s and women s contests were riding locally made Channel Islands surfboards or Pyzel Surfboards, shaped in Hawaii by Santa Barbara-born surfer Jon Pyzel. Santa Barbara native Jon Pyzel moved to Oahu in 1992 and started Pyzel Surfboards in 1995. (Courtesy photo) ....
Tyler Wright is SurferToday s Athlete of the Year 2020 December 30, 2020 | Surfing Australian surfer Tyler Wright has been named Athlete of the Year 2020 by SurferToday. For the first time in its history, SurferToday decided to highlight a single athlete instead of four recipients, representing surfing, kiteboarding, windsurfing, and bodyboarding. There are two main reasons for this unprecedented format change. The first one is the global pandemic that hit the world. In 2020, almost all competitions were canceled, and a large majority of athletes were forced to stay at home and/or avoided participating in sports activities. But the most important reason for naming a single Athlete of the Year 2020 is that Tyler Wright was the only water sports professional who publicly raised her voice against two plagues that spread throughout the world - racism and sexual orientation discrimination. ....
Kai Lenny s Jaws Go-Pro Footage Is Insane and John John Is the Best Surf YouTuber There Is Ten Things from Surfing & the Internet on the Week That Was December 25 2020 Mike Jennings Link copied to clipboard 1. John and Tyler Won Pipe It was so weird that for so long, the world’s best surfer couldn’t be called a Pipe Master – but that got rectified this week when John John Florence finally won surfing’s most prestigous and most respected event. And it was so weird that for so long, there had never been Championship Tour points surfed for by women at the Banzai Pipeline – but that too got rectified this week when the Maui Pro had to be moved there and Tyler Wright overcame Carissa Moore in the final. ....